
Hope everyone is having a good week so far!
Because historically that always works out so well
CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
Trump’s fake video featured ‘Danger Zone.’ Musician Kenny Loggins wants it scrubbed
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/nx-s1-5580328/kenny-loggins-donald-trump-ai-video
pssst, it’s a feature, not a bug
Trump’s nomination of Paul Ingrassia loses Republican support following racist text messages
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/trump-nomination-paul-ingrassia-racist-texts
You don’t say!
Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill top Democrat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ej7ly369o
The hypocrisy is stunning
Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/21/laura-ingraham-donald-trump-jr-business-fox-news
Have a great day!
I didn’t realize The Root was still around!
https://www.theroot.com/black-internet-drags-gayle-king-for-taking-a-selfie-wit-2000068819
more like Black TMZ, but it is still called The Root.
I was remembering the Old Root, and my commenting privileges, and was thinking they should get right back from where they started from:
Notice how this differs from Soul Train.
…ok…yes…the hypocrisy…
…is the point & all
[ETA: other options covered that get various kinds of pass for being not-nazi-skulls: jolly roger (one-piece variant) cf. pirates but higher hijinks quotient; punisher skull TL;DR can be worn by nazis but essentially that’s technically an “asshole skull”; grateful dead – stoner skull; momento mori – philosopher skull; calavera – mexican party skull…& then finally the totenkopf thing – fully-nazi-skull…but…I did enjoy this observation about that one so I’ll wedge it in after-the-fact & try not to make a habit of it]
especially about the nazi thing(s)
(whyisitpluralfuckthisbullshitalready)
…& everything
…but
…I mean
…at…some point?
…you have…whatever this is
…&…whatever this is
…& at the same time you have people who think jeffries is a terrorist & should be stochastically removed from the board to appropriately stack the game…you have…this?
…coupled to this
…while this
…is coupled to this
…if the thunderbirds was how the UN worked we’d be calling international rescue & declaring all hands on deck, now…like…the white house is short a whole exterior wall when they made public statements to the effect that the original structure would remain intact & the gaudy new carbuncle would be an adjoining extension & then they tore into surely a contender for the most historically significant structure in the…rather extensive…nation…for a grift to sop the vanity of an overtly corrupt mentally unwell festering mass of bigoted mis-firing neural pathways whose constant demonstration that he lacks the capacity for joining his thinking up for more that 3 seconds at a time if he can’t see a way to have it help him put his hand in someone’s pocket or keep his ass out of the consequences pit is somehow overlooked like it operates within some sort of reason-defiant forcefield…there’s literally actual not-even-all-that-debated-about-in-that-sense-previously plainly (relatively speaking) worded constitutional amendment type stuff specifically about all the ways it’s not just appropriate but somewhere between expected & demanded that you literally do the intervention thing under circumstances we passed the first time around…so expecting the second time to operate in any sense that makes sense is perhaps conceptually a fool’s errand…but…even so…this is like uncle sam is getting mugged…in a repetitive lunch-money kinda way…by *these assholes*
…but…to wilfully make light of something we ought to take seriously…they got capone for the tax stuff…not the multiple homicides with multiple witnesses stuff…so…kenny loggins is a long way from being the first…could a bunch of wildly successful artists pursue a class action pre-emptive opt-out pre-denial-of-use legal case to bankrupt the business model rather than the technology of the AI thing & also to pursue all that astroturf pac-funded bullshit that puts these things in those playlists the way patent trolls pursue shit…or fuck it…go full drake on that shit if you have to…if kendrick joins the suit you could birth a whole new cottage industry of youtube channels talking about that shit alone…generally show them what the highway to that dangerzone looks like until one of the parts of the equilibrium we get back is going back to them being on the back foot by default?
In my younger days I leaned right (Canadian right) but I never had anything resembling SS on my body.
FYI, Canadians showed no quarter/mercy and rarely took SS prisoners after the SS murdered Canadian prisoners in Normandy in WW2.
BTW, nice cheekbones and glasses Nazi boy, Nathanial (funny, I used that name for a scummy WH National Security Advisor who was trying to sabotage US Chinese relations for personal gain in my first manuscript.)
…been seeing variations on this here & there for days at this point…there’s a variety of slippery slopes that onboard a certain direct-ably self-selecting subset of disaffected (predominantly-in-ways-presented-as-a-feature-so-maybe-pro-dominantly-in-a-few-ways male) youth to slide down by eliding *legitimate grievance they can’t articulate or substantively alter* into a race-baiting engine of incipient frustration-injected hate-fuelled unthinkingly violent kneejerk reactionary antagonism that long jumped the shark of the pre-retaliatory tactical playbook into a somewhat predictable & sustainable political utility…provided you arrest their development while they still think the point is to win at lord of the flies & that’s mostly less about surviving in any sustainable fashion than it is about who has the fucking conch…& that is currently wedged irretrievably up the fundament of the only presidential ass of such prodigious proportions as to be able to use it like an actual cornucopia of liquid faecal matter…&…sorry if this part hasn’t already occurred to you & all…but…I grew up with a lot of “could the hulk take superman” kids that became the sort of “but when he rescued her wouldn’t their relative velocities have made that ‘when his indestructible limbs cleaved through her & rendered the whole issue moot in gruesome illustration of why sometimes you might have unusual incentives to avoid journalistically unethical romantic entanglements with extraterrestrial endlings’ that grew up to be the first run audience for the source material they believe it or not toned down considerably for “the boys”…&…that rage-bait faecal-slop clip has that ass wedged in a cockpit you’d need to write the plane off to cut him out of after you somehow greased him in there cankles first…but…it’s a fighter jet…it’s not a go slow kind of deal…& dumping viscous material at that speed out of US aircraft may or may not have other points of potential comparison…but…when it comes to how it lands on the people below its lateral velocity is like someone on a 6ft ladder threw a bucket of kids’-game-show slime/goo/goop/whatever-isn’t-trademarked-I-guess…in which case…in a world of snapchat filters & camera-effects…he posted a “if I was king I’d just napalm these people but I supposedly can’t do that, I mean I could, you couldn’t make me not do, I’m choosing not to do that because I’m the bigger person – the bigliest person, if you wanna know – but you know what if you all get to go out & talk all this shit about me I get to have a video where they let me napalm you but instead of the napalm I get to spew all “your” shit back at you & *you* look like the prize asshole in a buster keaton routine…& you still have to call me mr president while I shit all over everything because I’m daddy’s special boy & also your religion’s promised second coming of a messiah who was definitely not one of the bad jews the first time & my supreme lawyers say that’s the law no taksies backsies” video…on an official channel of the formal representatives of the executive office of the executive branch of a constitutional republic…like the kind of intern who needs a duvet day because they mislaid their executive function today…& this remains the gold standard of “but you can’t deny it’s the most effective anyone’s been with” means of policing political delineation & other variables that make up the properties of the overton window & how its sectors exhibit lensing effects so extreme it seems implausible they inhabit the same underlying physical dimension…& not the almost-comically-implausible perfect storm of cascading absurdities that deal with getting all the plot-furniture in place in the first act of a low-rent hollywood action thriller that probably went straight to streaming after even being more post- than -production couldn’t save it from starring steven segal for underwriting purposes & obligations to eastern bloc financing…in which the villains are *so* cinematic-ly shit-eatingly craven that it’s not even implausible that today-segal could comfortably take them in the third act finally when he saves…I dunno…GPT’s pro-forma USP for the pitch…so…the cybernetic bald eagle that is the singularity…as-evolved-by-bootstrapping-an-AI-using-only-the-federalist-papers-the-constitution-the-king-james-bible-&-the-bill-of-rights…plus…ah…the US tax code…&…ummm…the system prompt library of grok…& over-clocking the training cycles to speedrun the fermentation into the living embodiment of the technofascist apocalypse born arising from the ashes of the barren wasteland still burning with the inner light of righteous fury…or…possibly because the microplastics in whatever circulatory/nervous system wiring harness deal its cybernetic corporeality is macguffin-ed out of reacts to the poisoned thing that used to be a breathable atmosphere the way phosphorous does to oxygen…or lithium in water…or whatever…none of that matters what matter is it’s america & nothing could be more america & that means america wins & everything’s top trumps & even his name is on that so it’s his like the buildings that say that…that…also aren’t his for the most part but somehow still have to pay him to have him tarnish their potentially innocent establishment facades for them that way…& *that* is *the only thing* this movie is about…plus he kills more people than rambo & that james bond fag-smoker* put together so obviously that’s a happy ending no matter who you are or how you identify…it’s box office dynamite so that’s just basic math
[* …pick your spot right…& this is a fully 100% permissible thing to say that’s not likely to be considered a slur so much as an observation of an implied character trait omitted from the screen record…if you’re slightly off-beam…that’d be for “woke” “political correctness gone mad” reasons of a sinister nanny state variety & not…say…a migratory shift of cultural signifiers that no longer had “remaining addicted to a thing that can contribute to pretty much *the* undesirable outcome” listed under “characteristics considered to be load-bearing in a desirable appearance” due to a process more akin to brownian motion than covert operators…but…even then you won’t actually get to the bit of their comfort zone where they start casually dropping slurs or turning out to have white-supremacist tattoos old enough to vote for at least a bit longer than that…other spots…that you don’t need a passport to get to from the one sort…you could go home wearing less teeth than you left with…language do be that way sometimes…generally not about things the nazis considered personal IP for branding purposes to the point that wearing the patch if you aren’t in the gang might be considered a terminal error applied well within the lifetime of your own parents in ways that definitely impacted directly on theirs…even among man’s-man conventions at peak boys-will-be-boys levels of behaving in ways that should probably abort their career prospects rather than blow up other people’s lives…& there’s some dumb fucking kids in that group…& even they would not act like it’s so normal it’s weird you’re raising your eyebrow that a guy campaigning on a progressive ticket for the US senate sported a waffen-SS logo for a decade or two & then not only didn’t get it removed after leaving quotes on the record to indicate that part stopped being news to him at some point…&…hell…he probably could have wrung a sequence of tik tok videos out of the laser treatments or the cover-up tattoo getting rid of it where he talked up all his road to damascus credentials & too the wind out of the blackwater thing & said “OK maybe this time it won’t be me but watch me help it be someone better than susan & keep me in mind if they look like they need tagging out down the line” & kept the lion’s share of his supporters, potentially…stranger stuff won’t fucking stop happening no matter how much we beg, after all…but…with or without that one candidate…in roused rabble terms…by the numbers?
…can you really have a mandate if you probably think that means whatever he was thinking of at times like these?
…when disaster capitalism is no longer a euphemism but a recognized business sector
…& the passive voice is some kind of perverse lifestyle brand
…& anything shy of actively seeking to avoid being informed leaves you open to the blunt instruments of cognitive shock…like…
…I dunno…pray for us sinners, I guess?
I sat down to enjoy a nice, quiet, @megmegmcgee Wednesday DOT and now I’m bummed. Thanks a lot, @splinterrip
IKR! He can’t help himself!
…damn…am actually sorry about that part, for whatever that’s worth
…sorta hoped the “they’re losing the church” thing might be a bit of a tonic but I can see how that might be thin gruel…sorry
I never wanted my mom to help me with problems since I was… 9 ish?
Never understood the concept of helicopter parents past 13. I would be humiliated and disgusted with myself if mommy had to save my career at the age of 25/30?
Doesn’t exactly gain respect among the ranks, but I suspect little Paulie Tugnuts doesn’t realize that.
JFC “big Albania theory” hits wayyyyyyy too hard
Who among us has not been beaten up by seven “ladyboys” in Thailand? Sorry, it’s the Post. The NYT is also covering this but their paywall is impenetrable.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/luigi-mangione-got-beaten-up-by-7-ladyboys-in-thailand-months-before-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-report/
I will say that when I was 26 I was concentrating on jumping around on various jobs (I didn’t last more than 6 months at any of them before I flew off in search of the next job that paid $2,000 a year more. God bless the late-80s labor shortage and the low rents brought on by the perception that even Manhattan was a deadly hellscape. Two-bedroom rent-stabilized apartment in Chelsea for less than $1,000 a month?)
Anyway, I certainly wasn’t backpacking around Asia on a lark and getting on the wrong side of some ladyboy gang.
…you remember when they made them march for his birthday & people learned what malicious compliance can look like?
…so…anyway
[…in fairness my first thought was along the lines of the compliance involving a de facto alliance of the one being told their piece required the quote & the one they asked to provide it…so…I’m not taking against the byline over it but it’s still out of context for me at the moment]
welp as i cant quite figure out how to get my phone to make pics deadsplinter sized…and oppo wont let me crosspost pics…here https://opposite-lock.com/topic/129828/the-f1-box-got-a-slight-performance-upgrade
my goody box arrived and is now running…or well..running as well as can be expected in the middle of initial setup hows all this work then anyways hell
…so…you can time travel now, right?
once i figure out which setting i need to play with…..probably?
assuming i dont forget what i was doing coz i got distracted playing with all the disco light settings…